Month: July 2018

HOBOKEN, NJ – JULY 17: Clouds and rain shroud lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center as a thunder storm passes through New York City on July 17, 2018 as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) A quick thunderstorm in the middle of a summer afternoon can be a welcome relief

The mantle beneath Tibet has been torn into four massive pieces, according to a new computer model that gives an unprecedented glimpse at what’s going on under the surface our planet. Determining exactly what’s happening so far underground isn’t always easy, but can help in everything from predicting earthquakes to understanding how terrain evolves over

Australia has nearly five million dogs, with nearly 40 percent of Australian households owning one. But it seems that 40 percent of Australian dogs are not walked enough and that a similar percentage of dogs are overweight or obese. With colleagues at the University of Sydney, we are interested in collecting more recent data on

Elon Musk wants to do it. NASA wants to do it. Heck, Arnold Schwarzenegger did do it (well, in a movie). But can it be done? We’re talking about terraforming Mars: turning the Red Planet back into a blue one, by geoengineering the hostile Martian environment into something hospitable to humans. But according to new

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Medical-related artificial intelligence could be the way of the future. The thought of high-tech devices tracking our health and giving us medical advice, diagnosing our condition or even performing certain medical tasks is scary to some but recently a company called IEEE conducted a survey about

Theoretical research by an international team of physicists has discovered that the Great Pyramid of Giza can concentrate electromagnetic energy in its internal chambers and under its base. And although the ancient Egyptian’s probably weren’t aware of this weird design quirk, the study could be important for nanoparticle research in the future. “Applications of modern

The world’s largest king penguin colony has dramatically collapsed, and as yet scientists just don’t know why. From 2 million members in the 1980s, including 500,000 breeding pairs, the population on the sub-Antarctic Île aux Cochons has shrunk to just 60,000 breeding pairs. Using recent high-resolution satellite data from 2005 onwards, and helicopter and satellite

“The probability that ‘In My Life’ was written by McCartney is .018.” “Which basically means it’s pretty convincingly a Lennon song.” And with that, Harvard researcher and passionate Beatles fan Mark Glickman made his telling contribution to one of the eternal pop music pub arguments – who wrote the Beatles’ best tracks? The difference this

On 8 March, 2014, Zaharie Ahmad Shah radioed air traffic controllers, “Good night, Malaysia,” as the Boeing 777 he was piloting left the country’s airspace. A short time later, he and the 250 foot (67 metre) plane disappeared. By daybreak, Zaharie and the 238 other people on MH370 would be at the center of the

This barren tropical weather outlook from the National Hurricane Center is a common sight these days.NOAA/NHC The clock is ticking toward the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. We’re just about a month away from what’s historically the most active part of the season. So far, aside from two quick storms early this month, the

4Ocean got its start in January 2017.4Ocean These bracelets are something to brag about. They’re sold by 4Ocean, a Boca Raton, Florida, company that uses money from sales of its products to remove trash from the ocean. The company recently passed the 1-million-pound mark — in less than two years since its founding in January 2017. The

The sun sets over The Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm off the West Coast of the United Kingdom near Liverpool. Europe has nearly 20,000 megawatts of offshore wind power capaccity in operation. (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images) By Andrew Vitelli At this moment, 30 megawatts of offshore wind turbines are sending power

If you’re bluffing your way through a game of high-stakes poker, it’s a good idea to avoid shifty, nervous eye movements, which just might give your hand away. But it’s not just during poker that our eyes can betray us. A recent study suggests the way our eyes move actually reveals a scary amount about

The Large Hadron Collider below Switzerland and France has just accelerated its first atoms to almost the speed of light, and the results have “exceeded predictions“. The test was an exciting proof-of-concept that could lead to a new series of groundbreaking experiments and potentially even new types of matter, such as dark matter. Usually, the

After a long search, a cosmic mystery has an answer. Astronomers have made the very first unambiguous detection of a radioactive molecule in space – an isotope of aluminium, found in the heart of a rare nova. Scientists have long been searching for 26AlF – or Aluminium monofluoride – containing 26Al, but a direct observation has

The headlines in recent months read like an international eco-thriller. At Mauna Loa Observatory, perched high on a Hawaiian volcano, researchers measure unusual levels of CFC-11 in the atmosphere. The measurements baffle the scientific community: CFC-11, a potent ozone-depleting gas, has been carefully monitored since it was banned under the 1987 Montreal Protocol. But the

Tāne Mahuta is Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest living being – but the 45 metre tall, 2,500-year-old kauri tree is under severe threat from a devastating disease. Nearly a decade after the discovery of kauri dieback disease, it is continuing to spread largely unchecked through the northern part of the North Island. Thousands of kauri trees

Skin is your largest organ. There are about 2 square metres (22 square feet) of it enveloping you right now, and it’s not the shape we thought it was. In fact, scientists have just discovered an entirely new geometric shape previously unknown to science or mathematics, and it looks like it’s been hiding in your

A little bit of interspecies nookie has resulted in an unusual child that now lives in the waters off the Hawaiian island of Kauai. According to a new genetic analysis, his dad was a rough-toothed dolphin and his mum was a melon-headed whale – the first ever known hybrid of its kind. The cetacean was

During the summer of 2018, the planets of Mars and Saturn (one after the other) have been in opposition. In astronomical terms, opposition refers to when a planet is on the opposite side of the Earth relative to the Sun. This not only means that the planet is closer to Earth in its respective orbit,